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DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Raleigh, NC
$182,000–$250,208
$180,000–$300,000
$165,000–$330,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Digital Native Business
San Francisco, CA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
New York, NY
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Boston, MA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Chicago, ILRemote
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Dallas, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Austin, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Atlanta, GA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
Pay not posted
$144,900–$302,100
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$120,000–$136,000
Pay not posted
$170,000–$210,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector
Denver, CO · Honolulu, HI · +1 moreDenver, CO +2
$235,200–$294,000
$87,465–$117,600
$160,000–$205,000
$190,000–$230,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector
Denver, CO · Washington, DCDenver, CO +1
$274,400–$343,000
$91,100–$179,500
$165,750–$224,250
Pay not posted
$211,000–$302,000
$225,000–$225,000
TrueFoundryProduction engineering
Senior AI/ML Engineer — LLM & Agent Stack (Customer Facing)
San Mateo, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
$141,200–$278,300
GoogleProduction engineering
Cloud Engineer, AI/ML, Global Services Delivery, Google Cloud
Austin, TX · Atlanta, GA · +2 moreAustin, TX +3
$152,000–$221,000
$160,000–$500,000
$115,000–$152,500
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers pay?
626 of 766 postings state a pay range. The median is $200,000, and half of them sit between $166,000 and $226,000, across 216 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers require?
Of 766 postings, 351 state a minimum number of years, from 167 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 161 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (141), 10 or more years (27) or under 3 years (22).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers?
These 766 postings come from 295 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (66), Databricks (58), Amazon (incl AWS) (23), Accenture (19) and Booz Allen (16).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers remote?
146 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 192 are hybrid and 132 are on-site. The remaining 296 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 392 of the 766 postings.
Counted over the 766 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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